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- From: ez005587@chip.ucdavis.edu (David J. Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Magic Modems; any info?
- Message-ID: <19301@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:44:14 GMT
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- michaelg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Michael Greenwald) writes:
- : I'm looking into buying a 14.4K external modem, with FAX, for a
- : Macintosh. I've just started reading this group (just went back and
- : read the last 400 or so messages) --- it's been very informative.
- : But, I didn't notice anything about the "Magic Modems" entry into the
- : 14.4K/Fax field. Is it just a repackaging of some other modem? Yet
- : Another Rockwell Chip Set modem? Likely to be unreliable on noisy
- : lines? At the price (around $270) it seemed >very< attractive. Is
- : this just false economy?
- :
- : It's been advertised (at least) these last three months in MacWorld.
- : Does anyone have any experience with them? Any real info?
- :
- : Dial-out, Fax out and Fax in would be common. Dial-in very
- : occasionally, but probably usually at the lower speeds anyway.
- :
- : Thanks for any info:
- :
- : Michael Greenwald
- : Greenwald@cs.stanford.edu
-
- Please forgive any errors in posting, as I am just learning this text
- editor (vi). I recently bought a Magic V.32bis faxmodem from
- MacProducts, and am happy with it. It came with FaxSTF and Quicklink II.
- I am much happier with it since I purchased Microphone II and have
- been using ZMODEM to download.
-
- Dave Meyer
- djmeyer@ucdavis.edu
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